Jared Wekenman has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Last of the Chosen.
Russian Legends
Summary
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The world has never had its shortage of legends surrounding the lives of supposed mystics, visionaries, and prophets. But few have ever grabbed a hold on pop culture quite like Grigori Rasputin, one of the most shadowy and mysterious figures in Russian history. Naturally, what makes Rasputin one of the 20th century's most colorful and memorable figures is what we do not know. It is unclear how much basis in fact accounts of Rasputin's life truly hold, since the sources mostly consist of memoirs, hearsay, and embellished legend. Some contemporaries considered him a saintly mystic, psychic, healer, and prophet, while others considered him a debauched heretic. The extent to which he beguiled the ruling Romanovs, and how he did so, remains mysterious as well. It's hard to kill a legend, and that has literally been the case with Rasputin, whose death remains the most legendary aspect of his life. Perhaps the best known part of the Rasputin story is that his murderers practically had to kill him 10 times to finish him off, using everything from poison to bullets to drowning. Naturally, exactly how Rasputin actually died remains a source of controversy as well.
©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors
Dead Rain: A Tale of the Zombie Apocalypse
Summary
A foggy night. A detour. A long-hidden secret of alien origin. Thus begins 24 hours of suspense and bone-chilling terror for teenager Emma London and a handful of survivors in the midst of a zombie outbreak. In the tradition of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, Dead Rain is an epic tale of zombie hordes and deadly human intrigue from Joe Augustyn, who created the original horror movie Night of the Demons.
©2014 Joseph W. Augustyn (P)2015 Joseph W. Augustyn
All Kipped up, the Kipping Movement: The Best Way to Cheat at Exercising
Summary
I analyze an exercise that is extremely popular in the world of fitness. Made famous by the CrossFit world, It became an exercise that I wanted to depict and look at every single detail, such as the history, and the first person to use the kipping pull-up in a competition to gain an advantage over competitors. I also give you the pros and cons of the kipping movements while trying to be non-biased upon my rationalization of the most hated exercise in the world. I am a certified personal trainer, certified by the National Federation of Professional Trainers (certified by the NCAA), certificate number 45582. I also possess a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from Tiffin University.
©2014 Trevor Clinger (P)2014 Trevor Clinger
The Siege of Jerusalem in 1099
Summary
"I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to [persuade] all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it." (Pope Urban II, 1095) Of the many campaigns during the Middle Ages, few are as remarkable or seemingly impossible to win at the start as the First Crusade (1095-99), and the true crowning achievement of that crusade, which resulted in two centuries of Western European Christian states in the Middle East and the permanent firing of the European imagination, was the conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099 after three weeks of siege. That victorious siege came four years after the call for a crusade first went out, and had the Crusaders not taken Jerusalem, the First Crusade would not likely have been followed by any more and the campaign might have been no more than an historical footnote of what could have been. As it turned out, the siege of Jerusalem and the crusade as a whole says much about the first major clash of Western and Eastern military tactics after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as the power of faith and even fanaticism to motivate people beyond ordinary human endurance. For better and worse, the siege and fall of Jerusalem to the Crusaders has become a fundamental piece in the current view of the West in that part of the world. Indeed, to this day, the First Crusade remains a polarizing event, even among modern historians.
©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors
Last of the Chosen
Summary
Looking for adventure, romance, a modern-day quest in the tradition of Star Wars? Look no further. Hop aboard for a journey that starts on Earth but spans the galaxy. Join our heroes and heroines through a five-audiobook series as they struggle to put down an invasion that threatens galactic peace. In the process, they might even save Earth.
©2011 Lawrence P. White (P)2017 Lawrence P. White